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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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